A burning issue: Reviewing the socio-demographic and environmental justice aspects of the wildfire literature.

ABSTRACT: Larger and more severe wildfires are becoming more frequent and impacting different communities and human settlements. Much of the scientific literature and media on wildfires has focused on area of ecosystems burned and numbers of structures destroyed. Equally unprecedented, but often less reported, are the increasing socioeconomic impacts different people and communities face from wildfires. Such information seems to indicate an emerging need to account for wildfire effects on peri-urban or wildland urban interface (WUI) areas, newer socio-demographic groups, and disadvantaged communities. To address this, we reviewed the socio-demographic dimensions of the wildfire literature using an environmental justice (EJ) lens. Specifically using a literature review of wildfires, human communities

SUBMITTER: Thomas AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9333234 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature